Macintosh Version Control Systems

David Weintraub (apparently) - 07:49am Sep 21, 2004 PST
via email

I was putting together an evaluation of version control systems for a
large CM project I am working on, and suddenly noticed that Perforce
now has a Macintosh client and a Darwin server
<http://perforce.com/perforce/downloads/macosx102ppc.html>.

For those who don't know, Perforce is a professional Configuration
Management/Version Control System used by many large corporations. This
is the first time I've seen a non-freeware professional grade version
control system available on Mac OS X with a GUI client. Most of the
time, developers on Mac OS X usually had to make do with either a tool
like SCCS or RCS, or use a limited web browser version of a version
control system.

I haven't tried Perforce yet on a Mac, but the fact that profession
development tools are starting to come out for the Mac again is a
pretty major development. One of the problems with getting Macs into
corporate business clients was the lack of professional development
tools including version control systems, defect tracking systems,
development environments, etc.

Yes, I know I can always use RCS and SCCS, and I know about CVS, but
this is a commercial product that includes a support line and regular
upgrades - something that is important to many corporations.

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David Weintraub
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